Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: GABRIEL VIEIRA SALES

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STUDENT : GABRIEL VIEIRA SALES
DATE: 24/05/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

Echoes of the Nile: Pan-Africanism and the Heritage of Pharaonic Egypt in the Judeo-Christian Symbolic Universe (1960-2000).

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PAGES: 32
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This research aims to analyze the contributions of Ancient Egypt to the modern world, particularly those of a religious nature. Starting in 1974, the theses and publication of the book The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Senegalese historian Cheikh Anta Diop influenced various African authors. These authors, who would later be known or self-identified as Pan-Africanists, Egyptocentrists, Afrocentrists, or Vindicationists, argued that Pharaonic Egypt was a Black nation and that it disseminated its religious imagery like a beacon throughout the ancient world. This idea was not entirely original to Diop, as similar themes can be found in the works of Jacques-Joseph Champollion (1823), Sir Godfrey Higgins (1836), and J. H. Breasted (1909). However, Diop's ideas created a new paradigm, known as Diopian thought, which remains one of the main lines of thought studied by historians examining the contributions of Pharaonic Egypt to the rest of the world, as well as its racial origins and its relations with the rest of Africa.

One of the themes that garnered significant interest from historians like Diop and his successors, and which is the focus of this analysis, is the origin of the customs, symbols, and religious precepts of the Judeo-Christian universe. I will demonstrate that this theme is particularly significant to the historians analyzed, as it is linked to a chain of relations especially important to this line of thought. This importance arises from the way Western society, particularly since the 19th century, has debated issues related to the cultural, scientific, and intellectual legitimacy of African peoples. We conclude that issues concerning the origin of the Judeo-Christian symbolic universe interest historians like Diop and his successors because they understood that, in the society in which they lived, being recognized as the origin of the Judeo-Christian symbolic universe could mean possessing a privileged and empowering position of discourse.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - CINTIA ALFIERI GAMA-ROLLAND - FMU
Externo à Instituição - FREDERICO ANTONIO FERREIRA - OUTRO
Presidente - 1533038 - MARCOS JOSE DE ARAUJO CALDAS